Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?

A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

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The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.

Efficiency is not being enhanced, nor is waste being eliminated at the N.I.H. Scientists are just left to wonder: Why?

President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.

A bone discovered in Taiwan turns out to have belonged to a Denisovan, a lineage previously identified only thousands of miles away.

A new estimate of the ghostly particle’s maximum possible mass brings physicists a tad closer to understanding the universe.

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You don’t need a $40,000 gym membership to live a longer, healthier life.

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see from Earth might be drier than the near side.

Scientists achieved “a milestone” by charting the activity and structure of 200,000 cells in a mouse brain and their 523 million connections.

Readers respond to a critique of colleges by Greg Weiner, the president of Assumption University. Also: The rich and the rest.

Colleges and teaching hospitals are the cornerstones of the city’s economy — and identity. But federal funding cuts to higher education could change that.

Rising cancer rates in young adults deserves a federal study.

Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

Gender-questioning young people deserve better information.

Why is it so hard to discuss the idea that vaccines have both risks and benefits?

Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.

For decades, scientists have abided by a 14-day boundary on their work. Now science can do more. But should it?

Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.

Feng Tao, who was tenured at the University of Kansas, was cleared of charges brought under a discontinued Trump program aimed at Chinese spying.

Decisions on U.S. policy toward China are being made based on diminishing insight into the country’s internal dynamics.